A survey by YouPoll recently suggests that parents are more concerned over the threat of murder than current health problems such as the obesity epidemic. The survey was polled with over 1,200 parents who gave these surprising results.

The statistics however show that the chances of a child being killed by a stranger is in fact a million to one so their fears are clearly unfounded, whereas the risk of developing childhood health problems is one in three. A separate study has shown that the number of children walking to schools has dropped significantly to an all time low of 48% and this may be attributed to fears of the threat of murder.